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The promise of oop is that if you thread your spaghetti through your meatballs and baste them in bolgnaise sauce before you cook them, it’s much simpler and nothing ever gets tangled up, so that when you come to reheat the frozen dish a month later it’s very easy to swap out a meatball for a different one.

It absolutely does not even remotely live up to it’s promise, and if it did, no one in their right mind would be recommending an abstract singleton factory, and there wouldn’t be quite so many shelves of books about how to do oop well.

I have a hard time believing that microservices can possibly be a well designed architecture.

We take a hard problem like architecture and communication and add to it networking, latency, potential calling protocol inconsistency, encoding and decoding (with more potential inconsistency), race conditions, nondeterminacy and more.

And what do I get in return? json everywhere? Subteams that don’t feel the need to talk to each other? No one ever thinks about architecture ever again?

I don’t see the appeal.

Brit, but I live in a sea of Americanisms anyway.

I may be wrong, but I’m not sure I did miss your meaning, I think I just disagreed with your reasoning that em-dashes betray LLM authorship. They simply don’t.

I think someone was (for fun) deliberately trying to make people think they were using an LLM (quite possibly by actually using one). They wound you up, and the punctuation was your trigger.

I disagree with some of your new reasoning too - I absolutely do use Word to transfer my logical thinking and interpretation, and frequently draft Teams messages in Word because it has better access to symbols and diagrams (which I use in my work). I admit I don’t use it on Lemmy, though, so in that you’re correct. I do often deliberately correct - to — in many situations, but you’re right that forum posts aren’t the place for that.

(I’m not using an LLM. I think LLMs are literally stupid and frequently wrong. Em-dashes are one of the few things they often get right.)

You know that Microsoft Word autocorrects a dash between two words to that symbol, no?

Surprisingly accurate for an insult that sounds random.

Making America Godforsaken Again

You refuse to acknowledge that trump is the instigator of a whole bunch of racist shit.

No, I refuse to acknowledge your cause-effect. You say that people is racist because Trump won

Absolutely not. I claim that trump is the instigator of a whole bunch of racist shit, not that he causes racism. This was the worst straw man argument ever.

assume you are right and DEI is the right thing, so why only in cushy c-level jobs ?

More stuff I never said, more assuming that I run the American Democratic Party (despite never having set foot in the USA).

but not agree on how it is executed and I don’t think to be a racist for this

Lol you got triggered and ranted all day because someone disagreed with Trump’s interpretation of discrimination. You agree with trump but you don’t want to say so because you don’t like admitting that you have a lot in common with the stupid racist in chief.

Trump was elected because a very significant minority of Americans are racist, and the Republican party have been eroding democracy for decades.

You refuse to acknowledge that trump is the instigator of a whole bunch of racist shit.

People like you voted for him then blamed people like me for their reactionary shit.

The problem is that people like me are the ones that see what happen, do not say anything but in the end vote based on what they see and what candidates say.

No, the problem is that people like you criticise diversity, equality and inclusion and like to pretend that it’s discriminatory when it’s working against racial inequality and racial discrimination.

…do not say anything…

Lol. You wrote paragraphs on why you think DEI is bad and then you blamed DEI policies for the election of trump! You’re part of the mindless “blame Democrats for everything whether they oppose it or not” crowd and you are incapable of shutting up about how you think DEI and Democrats are wrong.

but in the end vote based on what they see and what candidates say

Anyone who takes trump or his international chums at their word is an idiot.

If you wanted to win, you should have

“you”?!

For someone who claims to be European, you’re pretty bad at realising that there are people who don’t live in America (including me, in case that persisted in escaping your attention), and you’re pretty bad at realising that it’s possible to be against racism whilst not being part of the leadership of the Democratic Party of the United States of America.

Not everyone who is anti-racist is in the DNC, and not everyone in the DNC is anti-racist.

I would have thought that was obvious, but then there is a correlation between racism and lower educational attainment.

Supporting the racist in chief for equality’s sake is insane.

I don’t care about Trump, it is not my problem, in EU Trump policies are irrelevant.

And yet here you are, arguing in support of his policies.

But Trump is a consequence, not a cause.

You have that really fucked up for two reasons.

1. Trump is instigating all kinds of racist shit policies
2. Racism is NOT caused by inclusive words or actions, it’s a reaction against them by people who were racist from the start.

You people voted for him.

No one like me voted for Trump. People like you voted for him then blamed people like me for their reactionary shit.

Apply to the EU instead.

I don’t know how you didn’t spot that Trump is a massive racist and just wants to make life shit for people who aren’t white and that’s all he cares about. When Trump says DEI, he means black people or hispanic people or anyone who isn’t white having a job at all. He calls it equality but he means it racist. I don’t know how that can have passed you by. Supporting the racist in chief for equality’s sake is insane.

Doh! You’re right of course!

Here’s my working. There are about 31.56 million seconds in a year, which I rounded to 30 million, and so

30 GWh/year
= 30x10^9 Wh / year
~ 30x10^9 Wh / 30x10^6 s
= 10^3 Wh/s
= 1 kWh / s
= 3600 kWs / s
= 3.6 kw

I used the duckduckgo autocalculator just now, and 30/31.56*3.6 is about 3.4, so it’s much closer to 3.4kW.

(It’s not power output, it’s manufactured storage output. I think of it as like a factory that produces 3.4 litre capacity jugs per second, but they’re not jugs, they’re actually batteries. Big ones.)

They could make a 120kWh battery (which would give a family car a range in the region of 450 miles) every two minutes.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

In fact, I very much agree.

Buying new cars is stupid. You wasted several thousand just by driving it out of the dealership. Let someone else do that and buy it a year later with low milage and ten grand off.

And the Nissan leaf is an absolute joy to drive.

You don’t generally advertise things that you don’t mass produce, though.

Yup. BYD’s 30GWh/year means 1kwh/second!

I can’t resist cancelling the units even though it doesn’t actually make sense because it’s a capacity not a volume, as it were, but that’s a 3.6kw factory!

This graph clearly shows that AI is also shockingly bad at factual accuracy and at telling a news story in such a way that someone who didn’t already know about it to understand the issues and context. I think you’re misrepresenting this graph as being bad about sources, but here’s a better summary of the point you seem to be making:

AI’s summaries don’t match their source data.

So actually, the headline is pretty accurate in calling it misrepresentation.

Amazon is laying off or has lost truly staggering numbers of experienced staff.

So it might not be AI, although my experience with AI suggests it’s right about 60% of the time and there’s no way I would let it implement it’s own recommendations anywhere near anything that earned me money.

It might just be cheaper, younger, newer staff making mistakes they don’t know how to fix.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_brain_drain_corey_quinn/

This is a really good article. Thanks for posting it.